Different varieties of Chavacano differ in certain aspects like vocabulary but they are generally mutually intelligible by speakers of these varieties, especially between neighboring varieties.
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15 Facts About Chavacano
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Zamboangueno Chavacano is the most dynamically spoken language of Philippine Creole Spanish.
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Chavacano contains loanwords of Persian origin which enter Chavacano via Malay and Arabic; both Persian and Spanish are Indo-European languages.
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Highest number of Chavacano speakers are found in Zamboanga City and in the island province of Basilan.
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Chavacano speakers are found in Semporna and elsewhere in Sabah via immigration to Sabah during the Spanish colonial period and via Filipino refugees who escaped from Zamboanga Peninsula and predominantly Muslim areas of Mindanao like Sulu Archipelago.
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Chavacano has since evolved into a word of its own in different spellings with no negative connotation, but to simply being the name of the language itself .
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Chavacano becomes a lingua franca of Sulu Archipelago ; although North Borneo is not included on the Spanish East Indies area as stated on the Protocol and control by the United Kingdom, Chavacano has still a little impact in Semporna.
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Chavacano Davaoeno became an extinct dialect of the Chavacano language as of the 2000s.
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Chavacano generally follows the simple verb–subject–object or verb–object–subject sentence structure typical of Hiligaynon or Tagalog in declarative affirmative sentences:.
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In Chavacano, it is quite common for el and un to appear together before a singular noun, the former to denote certainty and the latter to denote number:.
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Unlike in Spanish, Chavacano nouns derived from Spanish do not follow gender rules in general.
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In Chavacano, it is common for some nouns to become doubled when pluralized :.
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The Chavacano brinca is from Spanish brincar which means the same thing.
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Zamboangueno Chavacano uses a verb between "hay" and "ya" to denote the future perfect and past perfect respectively:.
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Zamboangueno Chavacano uses a verb between "ta" and "ya" to denote the present perfect:.
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